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CIPC #75: Lo squartatore di New York

Posted on July 3, 2018July 4, 2018

Last time, I spotlighted an example of the spaghetti western. This week, I want to show that other famous genre of Italian movie: the giallo.…

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CIPC #74: Botte di natale

Posted on June 26, 2018December 31, 2018

For more than two decades, from 1967 to 1994 to be precise, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer where a mainstay of the spaghetti western genre.…

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CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial

Posted on June 19, 2018

If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for…

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CIPC #72: Maigret S35, Mon ami Maigret

Posted on June 12, 2018June 14, 2018

I have a conjecture: every sufficiently well-known fictional detective will sooner or later be confronted with chess. A slightly – but only very slightly –…

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CIPC #71: Budd, The chess board

Posted on June 5, 2018

It is time to bring some culture to this blog again – and nothing screams culture like some classical painting. Besides, the last time I…

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CIPC #70: Chess board box covers

Posted on May 29, 2018

I found a new bizarre niche of CIPC material to get lost in! You can go online, find some pictures of cheap chess sets and…

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CIPC #69: The hound of the Baskervilles

Posted on May 22, 2018August 5, 2018

Long, long time ago, when I started this blog, I already knew that, inevitably, I would end up talking about Sherlock Holmes. I don’t think…

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CIPC #68: The hateful eight

Posted on May 16, 2018May 20, 2018

Tarantino syndrome is a disease which has been affecting many young movies, often with a great pedigree, for decades now. A textbook case is offered…

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CIPC #67: Barneby wand decoration

Posted on May 8, 2018May 9, 2018

In every big city you can find a games bar nowadays; a place where you can get together to play boardgames with friends1 while having…

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CIPC #66: “Weird Al” Yankovic, White & Nerdy

Posted on May 1, 2018

Parody is a tricky genre. When it fails, it tends to fall completely flat, but when it succeeds, ah, then you might just get a…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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